My Digital FootPrint

  Pew Research Internet Project has released ( March 2014) a report on Digital Life in 2025 based on expert interviews.   The report marks the 25th anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web by Sir Tim Berners-Lee who released the code for his system, for free, to the world on Christmas Day in 1990.  The Web became a major layer of the Internet. Indeed, for many, it became synonymous with the Internet, even though that is not technically the case.   This report looks at the present and the past of the Internet, marking its strikingly fast adoption and assessing its impact on American users’ lives. This report is part of an effort by the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project in association with Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center to look at the future of the Internet, the Web, and other digital activities. This is the first of eight reports based on a canvassing of hundreds of experts about the future of such things as privacy, cybersecurity, the “Internet of things

Source : http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/views_from_the_front_lines_of_the_data_analytics_revolution The link above is to a very good McKinsey article titled “Views from the front lines of the data-analytics revolution” Key points for me 1.     Senior management don’t understand Data irrespective if it is big, small, open, flat, simple or complex 2.     Privacy is not the issue – control, controls, authority and rights are 3.     Talent is always a problem but it never seen as a strategic issue

Source : http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140122165800-37102839-lies-data-tell-us Great article from Steven Thomson He sets out questions to ask next time you're about to make a big decision based on a particular set of data: Are you measuring the right thing? In almost any data-gathering situation, there are far more types of information that could be gathered than you can possibly tackle. Compare the contradictory claims that U.S. wireless phone providers make for their network coverage. No one's lying--they're all just picking different aspects of coverage to measure. Are you measuring it accurately? There are far more ways to screw up a measurement than there are to get it right. Ever compare election results to what the polls had said right up to the end? And political pollsters are the rocket scientists of data gathering--it's downhill from there. Are you interpreting the data wisely? Unless someone is inside trading, all inve

Commitment devices need to be understood

Source :  https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-science/the-formation-of-love/10152064609253859 This is the Facebook view of the world of relationships which start with a period of courtship on Facebook ( e.g messages are exchanged, profiles are visited, posts are shared on each other's timelines.) = snooping.  The graph shows the average number of timeline posts exchanged between two people who are about to become a couple. We studied the group of people who changed their status from "Single" to "In a relationship" and also stated an anniversary date as the start of their relationship. During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we observe a slow but steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared between the future couple. When the relationship starts ("day 0"), posts begin to decrease. We observe a peak of 1.67 posts per day 12 days before the relationship begins, and a lowest point of 1.53 posts per day 85 days int

Somewhere out there, there is a copy of your data.  Once created and you have shared it  publicly  it will be there - somewhere outside of your control.  Just because you have removed it from your places, it doesn't mean that it has been removed from everywhere….. The only  truly  private place is what happens in your mind and never shared. Everything else is based on trust.

By   NATASHA SINGER Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/technology/personal-data-takes-a-winding-path-into-marketers-hands.html The essence of this is article is that we don't know how or why something's happen in a digital world. Our data can go anywhere and is not in our control – nor is what others imply about us based on our data.  When it adds value we love it, when it does not we find it creepy

Research carried out among online gamers by  The Future Laboratory  for Confused.com found that more than half would divulge personal information in return for a little something. 35% of people in the UK have already used a self-quantifying app or service to monitor their fitness levels, mental health, and sleep patterns. To download and read the full report see  here . Dubbed PIPsters (personal information players), this group of tech-savvy consumers are more than aware that their personal information is in great demand, and they are happy for it to be used as long as they get something in return. One person I have backed on Kickstarter is  Zannier who sold his  data on Kickstarter

Not that I agree with this – but always good to have many views.

If data is…. My transaction data. Data from any, all and every transaction – spending, investment, bills, gifts, selling and free – www.mint.com Environment Data.  Where you are, what your environment is like, wind speed, temperature, gas usage, petrol consumption – everything.   www.efergy.com , www.theowl.com www.eco-eye.com www.diykyoto.com  :   Quantified self . Sensor Data from Google Glass , Nike+ sportwatch , Zeo sleep manage , Omron blood pressure monitor , Accu-Check blood glucose meter ,  Fitbit Flex wristband , Sportline heart rate monitor , MoodScope log and 1,000’s of sport apps on your smartphone.  Should the data be in silo or under my control or both? Routes and Routine data.   All your geo data www.waze.com , https://foursquare.com Content Data.   All data about how you create, use, consume, generate, recommend, share, about you, generate for any and all types of media and content – too many to mention Medical data. You and your

Motorola is looking at alternatives to traditional passwords in a bid to make logging into online sites, or accessing mobile phones, more secure.  Given that it takes 24 hours to break any 8 character password. These bio stamps, developed by Massachusetts-based engineering firm MC10, contain flexible electronic circuits that are attached to the wearer's skin using a rubber stamp. The device could then be used to confirm the owner's identity and log them in to accounts automatically.  This would prevent thieves and other people from being able to access a phone, or individual apps on the device, if it is stolen or lost.  If you are not there…. However – ·          like any tech I assume it can be scanned and copied ·          how do you deal with interference, jamming? ·          how will it cope with a high power transmitter? Therefore does it actually solve a problem or not?  Not sure it does but interesting thinking that the movement of 5 mm from your wall

Different to ideas presented here by Robin Wright (founder of Engine) who was exploring why the human brain demands so much more energy to change its mind - the implication is that loyalty is actually laziness.  Also worth reading is Nir Eyal who blogs at Nir and Far - who writes about behavior and the brain - he has an interesting post on how we deceive ourselves which aligns with Daniel Ariely work. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wearable_technology

Image source : http://hackcartoonsdiary.com/2009/04/06/psssst/   When writing My Digital Footprint back in 2008 I decided to keep the idea of My Digital Footprint as a single concept and took the time to explain it   I explain that your, our or my "Digital Footprint" is what I say about myself, what others say about me and it is how we react to our content within the community. However, a digital footprint is also about information that electronic devices automatically add to content, location, attention, how I reached something, who sent me the content, who I send it on to etc…   Some are trying to define a digital footprint as what you post and a shadow as what others post about you.   My problem with separating them is that we need a third and fourth one which is about what the algorithm says about the data I post about myself and what the algorithm says about the data I others post about me. To me this becomes too complex so hence I kept the single term. My Digital Footp

  Source http://www.fico.com/analytics   Predictive analytics is not a method by a diversity of methods brought together to enable businesses/ government/ individuals to make smarter, better informed, decisions.   “We know what you will do before you do” …. as long as we have the data!

My Presentation to Digital Shoreditch Does data understand the meaning of a wink? I believe that the problem we have with understanding data..... is the same fundamental problem, that we have about our views, our independent views, our independent views based on experience, our refined independent views based on on-going experience ; that we suffer when we talk about any political hot potato such as the economy, bank debt, personal credit, environmental change, global warming, privacy, size of government, policing or marriage reform……  we all have unique views and our views are different from the others around us and our views are also different again from our customers views – which apparently are the only ones that count! I contend that personal information, personal data, your data, your digital footprint and its relationship to you, your identity and your rights has the same complex mix, blends and balances that set and counter your personal views and insights.

Source: http://www.dailydot.com/lol/bang-with-friends-facebook-glitch/ Logged into   Facebook ? OK, now click   this simple link. Voila:   Here are your friends who have the app installed. Not a bug but a feature…

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According to this study , your Likes of a brand on Facebook are worth about $174.17 to that brand. The reality is that Facebook fans spend more money on the brands they like—$116 a year more than nonfans—even if their income was equal. In addition, those who liked brands were 18% more satisfied with the brand and 11% more likely to continue buying the brand.   We know what we like. Great insight! Syncapse , a social intelligence company, conducted a study with more than 2,000 Facebook users who liked a brand and considered a Facebook user's product spending, loyalty, recommendations, brand affinity and more to come up with the number. Source: http://gizmodo.com/5995468/your-facebook-like-is-worth-17417

I have written about the fact that Social Networks offer insights into how we humans interact with each other many times as they have unparalleled access to real time data. New  analysis from Wolfram Alpha , has examined usage habits and found that it as we expected, but have the data to prove it. Here’s a summary of some of the more notable findings, some of which are depressingly stereotypical, according to Wolfram Alpha designer Stephen Wolfram. The median number of Facebook friends is 342, a number that   varies based on how old you are : Teenagers tend to have more friends than adults do. When you’re younger, most of your friends are your own age , but the range of ages broadens as you get older. Teenage boys tend to have more friends than teenage girls, but that difference disappears as they get older. The older you get, the more likely you are to be married; women get married earlier than men; and, by 30, about 70 percent of people are married. (“It’s as if all those h